Artificial Intelligence News Feed

AI Helps Scientists Predict the Future Climate by Studying the Distant Past
Researchers at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are bringing AI to the Earth sciences, starting with paleoclimatology.

How nutritious is this food: USC researchers use AI to analyze menus
For USC’s Abigail Horn, helping people make healthier choices starts with using AI to evaluate their options.

Not Feeling It: AI’s Emotional Disconnect
ISI researchers explore the importance of affective alignment in AI.

Deception, Persuasion, and AI
AI players dominate the game Diplomacy, but negotiation and communication are not their strength, a USC ISI study finds.

ISI at ACL ‘24
Notable research includes work on newsworthiness prediction, AI diplomacy, creating better conversational datasets and more.

Leveling Up Research and Publishing in Geoscience’s Open-Source Era
A new workshop held at USC’s Information Sciences Institute hopes to have a ripple effect throughout the geoscience community.

“If you study AI you need to be curious and not pay attention to the noise”
EPISODE 28 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Pei Zhou

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Evaluate Your LLM
A USC ISI researcher and his collaborators propose separating the AI makers from the AI testers to create more robust systems.

USC at the NAACL ’24 Conference
Notable research includes work on legal AI, LLM manipulation by bad actors, and assessing argument quality.

How easy is it to get AIs to talk like a partisan?
Very easy, according to new research from USC Viterbi School of Engineering on LLMs.